HTPC - Need Graphics card that supports DTS HD / True HD MA

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

XFX have a mixed reaction - it depend what retailer you buy their products from and their PSUs are really decent.

I would say MSI and Gigabyte.

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I would only purchase items from scan, ebuyer or amazon, unless you can recommend others

CHeers

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Originally Posted by umster

I would only purchase items from scan, ebuyer or amazon, unless you can recommend others

CHeers

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They would be my ports of call too. Nectar points with Amazon too!:)

OTH,its hard to be objective about retailers.

Novatech and CCL are meant to be OK(not used them). Dabs were fine the last time I used them. Some peope swear by Aria and OcUK(others hate them). I bought a few parts from Yoyotech,them were fine.

Novatech has cashback(last time I checked) from TopCashBack and Quidco.

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

They would be my ports of call too. Nectar points with Amazon too!:)

OTH,its hard to be objective about retailers.

Novatech and CCL are meant to be OK(not used them). Dabs were fine the last time I used them. Some peope swear by Aria and OcUK(others hate them). I bought a few parts from Yoyotech,them were fine.

Novatech has cashback(last time I checked) from TopCashBack and Quidco.

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Yeap!! Novatech on quidco 3% cashback not bad!!!

Ive just been on the EVGA website they have three different versions

1600Mhz Memory Clock Speed
1400
1200

whats all that about?

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Originally Posted by umster

Ive just been on the EVGA website they have three different versions

1600Mhz Memory Clock Speed
1400
1200

whats all that about?

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The 1GB models seem to have the 1200MHZ RAM and the 512MB models the 1400MHZ RAM.

TBH,RAM speed should not make a massive difference for media usage. Maybe for games but the GT430 is not really a gaming card. Even the amount of RAM should not matter - 256MB would be more than enough for a media card IMHO.

The 512MB version does seem to be EOL though although Amazon still sell it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004K2WVW...SIN=B004K2WVWO

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Originally Posted by umster

Excellent, thank you. How about for AMD???

if you were to rank these manufactures, how would you rank them.

1. Asus
2. Evga
3. Gigabyte
4. Msi
5. NIS
6. Innovision

YoYotech, never brought from them before, how good are they compare to ebuyer and scan

Cheers

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In the first year any problems are the responsibility of the retailer and you shouldn't have any problems at all.

Gigabyte have a UK return centre for RMA after the first year. ASUS are a little unpredictable.

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Originally Posted by umster

who's a good /best manufacture for AMD cards


oh how's XFX???? any good???

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Its been a while, but the XFX RMA service is the worst I have had to use by a long way. I would avoid buying an XFX card if you have to deal directly with XFX.

In the US its a different story and they are considered one of the best.

Hello again,

Quick question...

Ati 6970, what would be the Nvidia equivalent

thx

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Originally Posted by umster

Hello again,

Quick question...

Ati 6970, what would be the Nvidia equivalent

thx

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google a review on the card and it should compare it against nvidia.

What does Cores mean on GPU's. looking at scan website it seems that AMD cards have more cores than nvida??

thank you

In simple terms a GPU is made from a group of small cores that work in parallel.

The more cores you have faster the processing, but you cant directly compare Nvidia to AMD GPU's as they both take a different approach on the how the pipeline processing is done.

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Originally Posted by umster

Hello again,

Quick question...

Ati 6970, what would be the Nvidia equivalent

thx

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A GTX570.

However,I would wait until summer for both the Kepler and GCN ranges to be fully launched. OTH,the for media playback any of the sub £50 cards would be fine IMHO.